Example sentences for: life

How can you use “life” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.

  • (Note: "Life and Art" is an occasional column that compares fiction, in various media, with the real-life facts on which it is ostensibly based.)

  • At the beginning of the film, now in wide release, Berkowitz--thirtyish and divorced and unable to get his directing career off the ground--explains that he has received a sum of money from a private investor (heard cursing the director via a hidden tape recorder) to go on 20 dates with 20 attractive women and thereby capture something unglimpsed in commercial movies about the single life, the nature of love, etc., etc., ad nauseam.

  • The fragmentation is occurring because (as I remarked a decade ago) the national state is becoming too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems.

  • The formation of a single statewide program was adopted to breathe life into a single program that will provide meaningful access to high quality legal services, in the pursuit of justice for as many low-income people throughout Colorado as possible.


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